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Brain candy for Happy MutantsMon, 15 Sep 2014 23:11:17 +0000hourly1http://wordpress.org/?v=4.1.1By: penguinchrishttp://boingboing.net/2011/09/22/tracking-down-the-stories-behind-a-trove-of-1920s-report-cards-from-a-nyc-girls-vocational-school.html#comment-1222154
Fri, 23 Sep 2011 06:34:00 +0000http://boingboing.net/?p=118954#comment-1222154One nagging question… what percentage of these records was left behind, and presumably is now in a landfill somewhere? And to take it further… how many other neglected file cabinets like these are out there (and how many are in landfills)?
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Fri, 23 Sep 2011 06:33:00 +0000http://boingboing.net/?p=118954#comment-1222153Neat, as if the school records as presented didn’t already bring the story to life in an extremely evocative way! I went to U of R and am a big fan of the Eastman House (well, the film screenings at the Dryden Theater in particular).
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Thu, 22 Sep 2011 22:45:00 +0000http://boingboing.net/?p=118954#comment-1221747I’ve done a lot of public records research. Public records 100 or more years ago existed to document what was going on. Hand written, full of extraneous details, with decent penmanship and plentiful facts. Todays public records exist to cover the ass of the administrators and convey no more than the mandated minimum of actual fact. This is true from the local fire department all the way up to the pentagon.
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Thu, 22 Sep 2011 19:37:00 +0000http://boingboing.net/?p=118954#comment-1221439Yeah, right? :/
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Thu, 22 Sep 2011 18:31:00 +0000http://boingboing.net/?p=118954#comment-1221378At George Eastman House I helped to preserve a 28mm gauge film from 1911 entitled “Manhattan Trade School For Girls.” You can see a version with added narration and music here: http://www.filmpreservation.org/preserved-films/screening-room/manhattan-trade-school-for-girls-1911
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Thu, 22 Sep 2011 16:35:00 +0000http://boingboing.net/?p=118954#comment-1221245“Walks around as if she were dying – absolutely pepless” – FTW
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Thu, 22 Sep 2011 14:51:00 +0000http://boingboing.net/?p=118954#comment-1221125This is great. I am presently working (as a volunteer) on an archive that is partially made up of documents relating to an alternative junior high school in New York that was called the Paul Hoffman Junior High School or PS 45. Other than what I find in these boxes, I haven’t been able to track down much info about the school. This might inspire me to try to track down former students and their descendants to fill in some of the blanks.
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Thu, 22 Sep 2011 13:47:00 +0000http://boingboing.net/?p=118954#comment-1221054Her father is a stevedore and she plays the ukelele. How much more awesome could you get?
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Thu, 22 Sep 2011 13:02:00 +0000http://boingboing.net/?p=118954#comment-1221014Yup, seems the women in these cards are all dead (most of them would be in their 90s or 100s, so it isn’t very surprising). The article is truly fascinating, great find there and great researching.
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Thu, 22 Sep 2011 12:45:00 +0000http://boingboing.net/?p=118954#comment-1220999If the subject is dead, it’s a historical document, not private information.
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Thu, 22 Sep 2011 12:17:00 +0000http://boingboing.net/?p=118954#comment-1220985Very cool project, but I wonder if it’s actually legal, or if it runs afoul of the Federal Education Rights Privacy Act (FERPA). The release of educational records is quite regulated.
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Thu, 22 Sep 2011 11:31:00 +0000http://boingboing.net/?p=118954#comment-1220968Such fancy-schmancy talk. Did your man-parent teach you that word?
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Thu, 22 Sep 2011 11:17:00 +0000http://boingboing.net/?p=118954#comment-1220965Fantastic undertaking.
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Thu, 22 Sep 2011 10:37:00 +0000http://boingboing.net/?p=118954#comment-1220954“girl-children”…. there’s a word for that… let me think…. ah, “DAUGHTERS”
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